The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-12-08
Scranton needs an artesian well.

by another.
A Grand Annual Calico Ball of the
knights of Labor was held last week
at Scranton.
The Supreme Court decided that the
county seat Coahoma will remain at
FriarS Point.
100000 pounds of pork will be kill
ed within the corporate limits of Boone
Vile this winter.
Gen. J. a Smith, ex-Superintendent
of Education, has been appointed post
master at Gulfport.
\ Kinds county Fair Association
has been formed at Bolton, with John
w. Todd , as President.
The senior and junior editors Of the
Baptist Record differ OH the subject
OF ''uniermented wines"
In recent hunt in Pike, Capt.
Renaud hagged 81 quail, hawk,
dove, rabbit and owl.
Twelve well formed sweet potatoes
grown on one stem was an object of
interest in Nicksburg lately.
Rev. 3. d. Gray, former pastor of
Clinton church, has accepted a call to
the Hazlehurst Baptist church.
Henry w. Grady, of the Atlanta
Constitution, has been invited to adj
dress the Y. NJ. c. y. at jackson.
A notable wedding was that of Mr.
w. =. Craddock of birmingham. Ala,
and Miss Eva Harris, of Columbus.
Mai. W. r. Walthall is lecturing
for the purpose of raising money for
the monument to Admiral Semnes.
Rev. l.. S. Piker has been called
to the 18th Baptist church of st. Louis,
one of the finest churches in the city.
Green Moore, arrested in Magnolia
for purloining groceries in his care as
freight handler, has left for parts I'M
| known.
Yazoo City's tax collector and asses
sOr, Mr. H, c. Phipps, was married in
st. Louis, Mo-, last week to Miss Es-
Their Quinnett.
Natchez is amazed over an immense
pair of shoes built out of two calves
hides for man in La. They should
be numbered Is.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen,
of Grenada, have raised the license on
transient street merchants and auction
GERS to $40 per day.
Yazoo county's thrifty people all
have cash in their pockets as II result
Of well-dOing-and well-doing the re-
suit of energetic work.
Senator George is having his old
home, near Charleston, renovated and
improved, preparatory, says the Con-
sentative, to moving intoit.
The Sword and Shield will be pub
lished 10y stock company, ENLARGED
to seven column paper and edited
by j. b. Gambrell and T. d. Mar
shall.
Miss Belle Peterson, author of
"ROSe SHERWOOD &c, is canvassing
the State in the interest of her new
book, beautiful Bird without
Name
The Methodist Conference meets in
Jackson Dee. 14th. Ample provision
has been made for entertainment by
JacksOn's people of nearly all denOm-
nations.
There are 800 alliances in the State
with a membership of $4,000 and by
the first of March it is thought there
will not he an unorganized county in
Mississippi.
Hon. j. l.. Turnage's reward for
winning the ~Senatorship from the
eleventh District, was pair of twins
presented the night after election by
his appreciative wife.
Mr.. McMalan, of Indiana, has swap
ped s., 600 farm in that State for a
thousand acres of Delta lands near
Yaz0o. This same land had been pur-
chased year ago at Is cents per
acre.
The United States Court adjourned
at Jackson, after a session of four
weeks, There were % convictions for
depreciation on government lands, l
for pension frauds, for post office rob-
berry.
A negro minister in Port Gibson bit
off the lip of a brother in black, in a
personal encounter last week He !
spat out the mOrsel, whereupon the
other picked it up and had it sewed
back i'll place.
A negro resident of Scranton, while |
assisting in loading vessels at Ship Is
land last week, became suddenly in |
sane and thrice attempted suicide by |
jumping into the gulf, but was as ma
ny times rescued. He is now recover
ing.
Mr.. Roberts, of the North, expects
to reap profits from buying up live
stock and pasturing it on native grass
es on his Madison farm purchased for
the purpose. This the result of Wis
it made South last year by Prof. Rob-
ers of Cornell University.